Drag This Daoist Lord Off His Divine Pedestal

◆Coming soon: I Tried to Snatch a Husband from the Exam Results List and It Backfired, and My Impostor Fiancée Ran Away After Being Reborn. Please add them to your reading list. Blurbs below.

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Lyu Shuang fell for a cold, aloof sword cultivator.

He wanted to experience the mortal world, while she wanted to find a partner she could rely on. They hit it off and became cultivation partners.

But after they exchanged vows, Pan Xu kept a stern face and nagged her to practice cultivation every day.

Lyu Shuang: Sure, sure.

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Later, when Lyu Shuang nearly died and lost her cultivation, she finally understood that no one else could be relied on. The only person she could depend on was herself.

Much less a cultivation partner bound to her by nothing but a bond of mutual devotion.

From then on, Lyu Shuang came to an epiphany and left, never knowing that her smiles and scowls, tears and resentments had become Pan Xu's greatest inner demon.

When they met again, Lyu Shuang's gaze was cold, but she was devoted to the Dao. The only thing she had no place for was Pan Xu, her former cultivation partner.

The once-arrogant sword cultivator pleaded in a low voice: "If I had another chance, I would protect you."

With sincere devotion to the Dao, Lyu Shuang replied earnestly, "The past is over, Dao Lord. You should let it go. The Great Dao is beautiful beyond compare. I have no room in my heart for anything else."

Why bother with romance? Cultivation is so much better!

Pan Xu's inner demons multiplied, but he could no longer win even a glance from her.

Many years later, he finally understood: no matter how high your cultivation, if you're pursuing your wife, sometimes you still have to get on your knees.

#The one who brought the Dao Lord down from his pedestal was the pursuit of his wife#

[Reading Guide]

* Proud Dao Lord x pampered female cultivator (a desperate hard worker in the middle)

* Happy ending after the pursuit of his wife. Lots of frustration and heartache. The awful male lead stays awful.

★-- I Tried to Snatch a Husband from the Exam Results List and It Backfired --★

Fake aloof, actually a perverted lunatic x gorgeous, silly woman who judges by looks

[One]

Third Young Master Pei was handsome and refined, peerlessly elegant, and the ideal husband in the eyes of the noblewomen of the capital.

Guan Yao had been coveting him for years, too.

On the day the exam results were posted, Guan Yao took advantage of the chaos, snatched him back to her manor, and forced him to marry her.

He didn't want to consummate the marriage? Didn't like her? No problem. She had unusual tastes and liked men who were as proud as peacocks.

One day, as usual, she went to pester him. She wrapped her arms around Pei Heyuan's forearm and gave it a playful shake, drawing out her words in a coaxing tone. "Dear husband~"

Pei Heyuan met her gaze for a few moments, then suddenly leaned in and gave her a loud kiss. Guan Yao was so stunned she couldn't react.

Talk about a mess. Had this guy lost his memory?

The amnesiac Pei Heyuan was utterly shameless and clingier than taffy. If she ignored him, he would be so aggrieved he'd go scratch at the wall.

His aloof, immortal-like demeanor had vanished completely. Guan Yao couldn't stand his shameless behavior, so she simply left him a divorce agreement.

[Two]

One day, while taking an afternoon nap, Pei Heyuan somehow tripped and fell face-first onto the bed. When he woke up, he discovered he had a wife.

His wife was dazzlingly beautiful and charming, and from her hair to her toes, she was exactly his type.

It was as if he had stumbled upon a treasure while out for a walk. From then on, Pei Heyuan changed completely, wanting only to be loving and inseparable from his wife every day. He practically had the words "devoted husband" engraved on his forehead.

Just as he was congratulating himself on his excellent taste in finding such a gorgeous, adorable wife, a divorce agreement and a huge sum of money suddenly appeared, along with a message telling him to get his head checked???

Fine. That was more than enough to get his blood pumping. Not only had he regained all his memories, he'd found a new goal.

So what if he abducted her? Hadn't she abducted him first? He was simply treating her the way she had treated him.

[Three]

Several months later, Guan Yao was happily eating shaved ice when her ex-husband suddenly appeared before her, looking like a demon king from the darkest night, his whole body radiating menace. "Wife, are you coming back with me, or should I tie you up and take you back? Pick one."

In the heat of June, Guan Yao suddenly shivered.

#Help! How do you have a third personality too?#

--Coming soon: My Impostor Fiancée Ran Away After Being Reborn, a proud heir chasing his wife in a panic--

The thing Duke's Heir Song Chun hated most was how everyone loved to tease him about his little fiancée.

That Qiao girl was frail and sickly. What was there to like about her?

So Song Chun always scoffed and retorted, "Who would marry her? This heir certainly won't."

But one day, the person who had followed him around every day, sweetly calling him "cousin," suddenly said she was an impostor and left Duke Song's manor without looking back.

Later, she went into business and became a successful merchant, then helped his own older brother secure an official position.

After that, she started looking for a match...

Everyone in the capital knew the Qiao family's daughter was as beautiful as a moon goddess, and that countless officials' sons wanted to marry her.

Fury surged through Song Chun. He couldn't hold back any longer and stopped her to demand, "I'm your fiancé. If you marry someone else, what am I supposed to do?"

She ignored him, so he angrily dragged a chair across the ground and set it in front of the Qiao residence. "Let's see which idiot dares to ask for my fiancée's hand!"

A basin of icy snow water was dumped over his head, drenching Song Chun to the bone.

Song Chun caught a chill and fell seriously ill. He began having bizarre, wildly improbable dreams, and after waking, memories that tore his heart apart gradually came back...

Being driven from the manor, sold into a brothel, forced to become someone's mistress, poisoned and left to die...

If, if he hadn't run away from their marriage in his previous life, she might never have had to endure any of it.

Theme: The strong make themselves stronger. Adversity, too, is an important force that spurs growth